In a blow to all those suffering from Grimwade’s Syndrome, Mitt Romney has won Iowa's straw poll. The victory was due, in part, to grimly eager support of something tragic: torture.
The reason this position is popular is easy enough to describe, but not a solution...is it time to identify with the anonymous victims, with anonymity itself? Doubt it. That cowardice will feed an alternate extreme I find equally disagreeable.
No, it's time to embrace something more radical: eye contact. Sure, we all hate the creepy looks of strangers, the dead stares of the overworked, the barely disguised fury of those casually confronted with another human being, but if we're going to get past primary loyalties, we're going to have to stop hating strangers.
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